1st Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A sepia photo of the Battalion Athletics team who were the winners of the Lucknow District Athletic Championships at Fyzabad in India in 1928 Photographer; Gauri Shanker, Fyzabad

5th Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white photo of Captain P J Prior, the Intelligence Officer of the Battalion, probably posed for a photo to go with an article in the Bucks Free press (Artefact 9286) when he was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1944

5th Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A photocopy of a black and white Group course photograph of the L/Corporals course in Bournemouth; the photograph shows L/Corporal McDill (who later became a Captain in another Royal Berkshire Battalion) in the second row, fifth from the left, Sergeant Stephenson (Chief instructor in March 1944) in the front row 94th from left, Lieutenant J Prior (Officer Commanding the Course), Lieutenant Colonel Taffs (Commanding Officer of the Battalion) and Company Sergeant Major Pratley

1st Bn, Wiltshire Regiment - A black and white photograph taken at the farewell of S Webb-Johnson on 9th October 1945, by the Management Committee of the Simla YMCA. Included in the photograph is Lieutenant Colonel Thyre, the Commanding Officer of the 1st Battlion at the time - he is fourth from the right in the middle row

5th Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white photograph of ex-Captain Peter Prior in Reading in 1998. He is pictured with a life ring with Royal Berks painted thereon. This item was used by him on the landings at Normandy when the Battalion landed on Juno Beach on the 6th June 1944. His batman painted the words on the ring.

1st Bn, Duke of Edinburgh?s Royal Regiment - A CD containing 30 black and white and coloured images taken by Ex Sergeant Andy Prior. They mainly consist of scenes in Libya, North Africa when on exercise from Malta and in West Germany when based at Minden. In addition, there are several from Berlin.

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On 21st January...

...1945 the 1st Royal Berkshire war diary entry reads:

Bn H.Q. plus 1 Pl of 'D' Coy remained in same area. 'B' Coy also located in same area as last night. 'A' Coy and 'D' Coy moved out at 0730. 'A' Coy to area masts 500 yards West of bank of R. IRRAWADY (S.R. 700214) 'D' Coy to area 695214. Air strike on enemy...